3 Golden-Green Carpenter Bee at Acton, ACT
Identification history
| Xylocopa aeratus | 15 Oct 2018 | michael.batley | ||
| Xylocopa aeratus | 15 Oct 2018 | TimL |
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User's notes
ANBG Section 112 Rutacea.
Thanks to Marcus Leach for the initial sighting of these male GCBs high up in this bush. They were difficult to see as they were mixed in with many honey bees.
Two male GCBs were present at the same time over a 5 minute period and stayed well separated from each other. These images are of one of this first pair. Another male appeared 22 minutes after the first pair left and was only present for a couple of minutes. (Possibly one of the first pair returning?) No more sightings were made during the 20 minutes after the third GCB left.
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michael.batley
wrote:
16 Oct 2018
Watch for males patrolling above chosen landmarks. Their flight is quite noisy and they will dive down to chase anything that appears to fly through their territory (including pebbles thrown into the air).
Location information
- Coordinates 149.109701-35.274214
- Maps ANBG
- Places Acton, ACT
Sighting information
- 3 Abundance
- 15 Oct 2018 12:45 PM Recorded on
- TimL Recorded by
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Featured ACT Most Wanted! Insects Bees (Hymenoptera, Apiformes) TimL Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- Philotheca myoporoides subsp. acuta Associated plant
- Male Gender
Species information
- Xylocopa (Lestis) aerata Scientific name
- Golden-Green Carpenter Bee Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Rare or uncommon native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 781.8m Recorded at altitude
- 297 images trained Machine learning
- External link More information
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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